When I saw the price for the seminar my heart sank. Not that it is unreasonable by any means. It just is not something I can pay for right now…
When I saw the opportunity for a scholarship

This scholarship would help me with accountability and follow thru. I recently made a dream poster. I thought I was making it for business purposes, however, interestingly enough all the things I was drawn to were for personal. Which shows me I have to work on me also, before I can create the business dreams I need.

Thanks for paying it forward. A scholarship would mean alot to me and mine.

Through it all, I’ve given/created much .. but without remuneration. I’ve mentored youth, served my community in a professional/volunteer capacity, reach out to those in need.. pursued knowledge/pursuits that would enable me to make a contribution in solving the many problems that beset us. I have much to offer.. if I can just get unstuck.

Coaching is an incredibly powerful vehicle to empower people to achieve their dreams and to accomplish great things. I saw this over ten years ago and myself pursued training as a coach before most people even heard of “a coach.” Today, it’s a profession that hardly anyone has NOT heard of or experienced. But like my law degree, Masters in Environmental Law, Life Coaching Certificate… I’ve been unable to focus my energy and talents in a way that enables me to sustain myself financially. I also created/invented and brought into being a unique product for children (The CANDU multiform furniture design for children and their families). I’m proud of the creation and people rave at its inventiveness, utility and quality, yet I’ve been unable to bring it to the marketplace such that it brings any financial returns. In the right hands/sufficient resources, it no doubt can be a success. I’m at a critical juncture.. hopefully turning point in getting on a path that sustains myself (though work and/or my entrepreneurial efforts) and enable me to make a meaningful contribution.

Participation in your coaching program, which to date I’ve followed from afar, may be the very thing that helps change my life. I will never forget your generosity should you enable me to take part in the program on a scholarship. I know I CANDU it, with your help and the support of your program. I’m inspired by your work and I look forward to the chance to participate in the 90 day program.
With Gratitude,
Rob Honigman

Let me start by explaining why I have not listed my full name. I have found myself in a 3 year marriage that has sucked the life out of me. I can’t say what I need to say in a way that he could find this online.

I was always a driven, positive person. I saw possibilities in any circumstance. My life was full and I was a very giving person.

As I approached 40 I met a very nice man. He seemed to really appreciate my talents and personality. We dated for a year; he proposed; we were married a year later.
Very soon into the marriage, I just had this gut feeling that things were just not quite right. I chalked it up to us both being married at later stages in our lives.

Being a positive person, I KNEW it would get better. I always tried to take on as much of my responsibility as possible. I tried to approach each situation with a forgiving heart. We would argue, but he would always come back and apologize.

Soon, though, a pattern began to emerge. The fights would be about the same issues. I kept thinking “deja vu”
He would wear me down with circular arguments that he would never end. He would keep me up until 3 or 4 in the morning, baiting me when I asked him to just let it rest or asked him to agree to disagree and let it go.

Fast forward 3 years: I am looking in the mirror and shocked by the woman I see before me.

I have only a handful of friends who are still in my life. My business is failing. I am financially dependent on the man who sabotaged my business.

I have always seen myself as a strong, vibrant, positive woman. Blessed and focused on giving back as much as she received. Had you told me I was getting caught in a relationship of abuse, I would have told you how wrong you were!

Marcia, I would never allow a man to hit me. Yet the emotional abuse I’ve been subjected to is insidious. You really don’t see it coming AND because YOU would never do that to another person, you can’t IMAGINE someone you care for doing it to you!

So here I am, asking for help.

For me, this is an opportunity to have someone hold my hand as I walk back to myself.

Thanks for considering me and all of the other applicants.

Thank you for offering the scholarships and mini-scholarships. It’s clear they will create a wonderful wave of conscious creation into the world, and for that I am even more thankful.

I listened to the January 6th call, and heard my internal blocks listed one by one. Even though the program has begun, I am here to ask for a scholarship so I can participate in the full program.

I’ve been consciously on the path of self-discovery for about 15 years. In that time I have left the corporate world, become an entrepreneur in our family business, explored the healing arts, weathered the failure of that family business, gave up my home (thankfully, before it was foreclosed upon). I have helped several people see how to incorporate their dreams and light into their business and life, and have remained open to all ideas of how I can bring my creative flow into the world.

I have learned to speak up (not an easy feat for one who was punished for making sounds or bringing attention to myself) and to trust my inner knowing (when I listen).

These ideas have finally started to make sense — two e-books and an empowerment interview series.

In the meantime, I am ending my relationship and marriage of 13 years and am looking for a place to land. With my storage spaces that hold all I own, I face lien sales every month. My cashflow is very, very slim, and I don’t qualify for unemployment. My daughter is taking time off from college because I now can’t afford her tuition. I see this all as simplifying my life so I can build it strongly this time around.

My frame of mind is open and positive because I know I’m moving toward a life that more clearly is me. Yet almost daily I am faced with doubters and negative reminders of the way I used to live (passive aggressively), and pressure to live a way of looking at life (scarcity) that no longer is what I am embracing.

This has the effect of having the vision without feeling free to feel the emotional fullness of its attainment. I am challenged to keep the vision in mind in the face of my doubters. Allowing myself to feel the passion is the hardest thing to do.

My meager financial resources right now are focused on making sure I have gas in the car, and some money for healthy food.

My dream is to help empower people to shine their light in the world through simple tools such as my business books, and listening to my Empowerment interview series. I SO enjoy learning how people came to who and where they are now, and what choices they made along the way.

I know it is not my job to do it all, and am always looking for really good resources. That is how I came to Jack Canfield and to you.

I’m asking for a scholarship so I can get help in focusing on bringing my work into the world. In so doing, I can help others bring theirs into the world, and we can all make this a better world to pass on to the next generations.

Thank you so very much for your incredible generosity. I’m looking forward to the next steps!

Blessings and peace.

I have always worked in the nonprofit arena, and have given a year as a VISTA twice. The most recent year was more stressful since I now have a mortgage and other bills/respons-abilities. I have tried to be giving and nuturing in all I do.

My husband has been out of work for over a year. We lived without electricity for two years and still do not have running water or a septic system. We are living in a very rural area, but driving to town for (my) work and his work-search. (Trying to appear clean and “normal”)

While I am also struggling with clinical major depression, I KNOW there is more that I can be and do. I am blessed with many talents that I am unsure how to apply. Thank you for the chance to break through and give what I am on the planet to give!